 I hope everybody is doing well. So we are going to continue. We're continuing inshallah on this series this four part series or so. We're talking about repenting in the month of Ramadan and we have just about a week and a half or so left of Ramadan. So this is going to be our third class and then inshallah we will wrap it up with the final class next week. So today we're going to be talking a bit about the practical steps to repentance. So we've covered up to this point a variety of different aspects of repentance. We've talked about why repenting is so important. We've talked about the different categories of sins and now we're going to get into how do we actually go about engaging in repentance. So let's just get straight into it. We're going to start with actually talking about the blessed nights that we are about to enter, which are the last 10 nights of the month of Ramadan. And there's one second here. Just want to make sure everything here is working. So we're going to be talking a little bit about these nights. So let's remember that we are entering tonight into the first odd night of the last 10 nights. And the first odd night could be Layutul Qadr. We don't know that the Prophet ﷺ told us to look for Layutul Qadr, the night of power in the last 10 nights. So we are in that period and so it's a very, very important time. These last 10 days and last 10 nights are the time for us to kind of roll up our sleeves. It's the time for us to kind of go for the home stretch, really work hard to make sure that we maximize the most out of Ramadan. The Prophet ﷺ, he would really, really, he was always, always in a state, masha'Allah, of Ibadah and he was always increasing his Ibadah. But he was especially focused on doing so and he would tighten his loincloth in the last 10 nights of Ramadan. So it's very important for us to try and do that. These are the days according to a hadith that Allah frees many, many, many people from the Hellfire. So that's why this topic of repentance in the month of Ramadan is very applicable because this is the time for us to really focus on turning to Allah, on repenting for our sins and on trying to change our life. And somebody just asked actually, do I have to continue to repent for the sins before reverting to Islam? So if you converted to Islam and you have certain sins that you might have done before, Islam, insha'Allah, that one big sincere repentance hopefully should be good. I would not overthink that stuff that you did in the past. It's helpful to remember some of those things when you're kind of in certain moments just to appreciate the blessing that Allah has given you of this beautiful religion of Islam, but definitely would not kind of overthink that or kind of over analyze that. Yeah. So let's start with today, we're going to be talking a little bit about reviewing the minor sins and talk about how minor sins can turn into major sins and then we'll get into practical aspects of repentance, insha'Allah. So there are various ways to think about the minor sins. So we talked last time about the mortal sins, the major sins, and we talked about the minor sins, the minor sins that exist. The mortal sins and major sins are sins which we have to very specifically and sincerely repent to Allah for those sins. And minor sins are sins which we should repent for, but at the same time, many of our daily deeds making wudu, praying, fasting, that's serving as a kind of cleansing for those sins, insha'Allah. So one of the ways in which major sins turn into minor sins is that if you and I keep persisting in that sin, so if you and I keep persisting in that sin, it turns into a major sin. By the way, somebody just asked, I just want to make sure is this on YouTube as well? Yes it is. If you go to mcceastbay.org slash live, insha'Allah it'll show up on YouTube. So one of the ways in which minor sins turn into major sins, if we just keep persisting in it and we keep doing it. Another way is if we look at that sin with scorn. So if we think that, oh, this is not really like a big deal, we simplify it, we downplay it. And this happens a lot, right? This happens a lot. Remember that the believer, we see small things as like huge mountains looming over us versus the hypocrite. They see their sins, even if they have a mountain of sins, they see it as a fly that sits on their nose. And this is from a, I believe it's from a hadith or it might be from another tradition, but the hypocrite, they minimize big things. And the believer, we magnify even small things. So we should be trying to always think that, oh my God, what if I did something really displeasing to Allah? And we are trying to be in the state of repenting to Him and trying to turn into Him. So the first takeaway here for today is never trivialize any sin. Just try not to. Try not to say, oh, this is not a big deal. Try not to say things which the majority of the scholars or all the scholars have ruled in as haram and is not permissible. And we might say, oh, it's fine for me to do. It's really not that big of a deal. Try not to minimize it because it's a trick of Shaytan to try to prevent you from repenting. The only thing stopping you and me and our sins from being forgiven is us asking for forgiveness and changing our life. Shaytan, then if he knows that you are on a path to change your life, if Shaytan knows that you are on a path to change your life, he will try to stop you from repenting and stop you from changing your life. And of course that is one of his tricks in order to prevent you from being successful in the next life. Another thing for us to keep in mind is if we think, if we are proud of a certain type of sin, then that can also be very, very dangerous for us. So what is an example of this, right? An example of this would be that if we are, if we are, you know, we do something and we boast about it and we're proud about, oh, look, look at what I did. Okay. You know, and sometimes this happens amongst people, like they'll do a lot of haram and you'll see this in like colleges. People will be in a lot of relationships that literally boast about how many people they might have been with or that they might have slept with and these types of things. That's a really, really dangerous sign because what ends up happening is you are using something that is a sin in Allah's eyes and you are using it as a way to boast and as a way to be proud. So that's another takeaway is to never be proud of any type of sin that we any type of sin that we're doing. The third thing is for us to never make a sin public that Allah has made private. So Allah veils you and me. He veils us. We do a lot of sins. He throws a curtain over us, right? So if we sin in the nighttime, he throws that curtain over us so that people in the daytime might not know that we sinned and we sin in the daytime and people later at night might not know that we sinned. Allah is merciful and he's throwing that curtain over us and he's veiling us for a reason. One of the things that we should be very careful of then is to expose ourselves and the sins that we're doing to other people. So we don't want to do that because a couple of things can happen. One is Allah had covered you and you were uncovering yourself, right? So that's dangerous. The second is that you and I might encourage other people. We might end up being the means of encouraging other people to sin. And then just like if you encourage somebody to do good, you get the reward for the good. If you encourage someone to do sin and someone to do wrong, you are, you know, that what they end up doing can impact you spiritually and can be a source of punishment for you and I because we encourage them towards the wrong path. So what does this mean in our practical time that we live in? Well, we live in a time of social media. We live in a time of talking about everything we do. So we might get in a situation where we're in a relationship that, you know, we shouldn't be in. We're in a around relationship. We're in a, you know, where maybe we're drinking or we're doing drugs or any other type of sin somebody's doing. And we post about it, right? We post about it on our Facebook or on our Instagram or on our TikTok or on any other social media platform. We let people know that we were engaging in that sin. That's really dangerous. Highly caution that we don't do that because if you throw the curtain of Allah off, right? If you post, let's say somebody is struggling with wearing, you know, inappropriate clothing. Well, if you and I are doing that and we're struggling with that, okay, that's something we're working on, right? We're like, okay, we know we want to be on this path to dressing more appropriately or working on it. But if we now start posting inappropriate images of ourselves and letting publicly letting people know, right? Because we might want that attention and whatever it is, we are in a dangerous precarious state because we threw that curtain of Allah off, right? So that's also a really dangerous aspect of it might be a minor sin, but it can become much more major. And lastly, another category is if somebody is in a state of like leadership or people follow that person in any way, especially if they have a learned aspect to them by Islam, and they commit sins publicly or they commit certain sins, it's their health to a higher account because they are supposed to be people who are setting examples. And then the example, of course, is not set and the opposite ends up happening. So that's a little bit about, that's a little bit about, about, you know, some of these minor, these minor sins and ways that they turn into major sins. So now let's get into, now let's get into practical ways to repent, which is really what I want to focus on for today. So you have categories, we all have categories of what we need to repent from, right? So the first category of what we need to repent from. Okay, somebody asked a really good question. Thank you for asking this question. Very relevant. Someone said, what about somebody who would want to know about your past? Are you supposed to tell them? This is a point of major confusion amongst a lot of people. So if you and I have done certain things in the past, but we have reformed ourselves, we have changed, we have stopped doing all that stuff, we do not, we do not speak of it. No, we do not, we have no, you have no responsibility as long as it's not some public thing, right? Or something that's like, you know, that would be like on a record and the court or something like that, you have no responsibility to tell people like they ask you, let's say someone drank, a lot of Muslims, maybe they drank and they changed their life or somebody smoked weed or something like that. And they completely stopped and they have changed their life. You have no responsibility to tell people that that's something that you did, no responsibility to tell them and you should not really expose that. And even this idea when people are in like getting in relationships and they've changed their life completely, it can damage a lot of relationships when people have divulged way too much about past things that they don't do anymore, they've changed. Allah veiled you, inshaAllah that means Allah forgave you, no need to unveil your past mistakes, keep it between you and Allah inshaAllah. And if as long as that, you know, once life has been changed and when one has worked on themselves, that would be what scholars recommend on this topic. So moving forward, just one second here. Sorry, I just had to close this window. So moving forward, let's talk about the categories of what we need to repent from. So first is we should repent from omitting anything that Allah had made obligatory on us that we did not do. So Allah has made obligatory on us our praying, our salat, our fasting, our zakat, these types of things. So if we just didn't do it for a long period of time, we have to have a sincere repentance from that. We should really turn to Allah and ask Him to forgive us for omitting that. So omitting the farth. The second would be sins that are between you and Allah. So act with all the major and minor sins we've been talking about. We have to seek repentance from them, right? So, you know, let's say again drinking or interest or these types of things, we need to really have a sincere repentance and can really feel remorse in our hearts and we'll talk about that in a second. And the third category are sins that are between you and other people, right? So maybe it is a, maybe it is something that you do damage a reputation, you talk smack about them, right? Whatever types of things you and I might have done between us and other people. That you and I need to repent from and we need to seek forgiveness of that person. We should ask that person ideally if they forgive us, that they pardon us. And if they're not able to do that or if we don't feel ready to do that because it's hard, it takes a lot of courage to do that, that we really make a lot of the offer them and we ask that Allah forgive them as well for anything that they might have done because we might have done something wrong to them. So these are three categories really that the scholars break it up into. Omitting farth duties, sins between you and God and sins between you and other people. So now let's get into why we repent and the conditions of repentance. So the reasons why we repent, it's important to kind of review them. So first is we just have to remember that our sins are like, they hold us down, they wait us down. We're trying to progress in this life. We're trying to progress spiritually in this life and our sins prevent us from progressing. They prevent us from progress, they hold you down. They're like shackles. So as a way to let go of those shackles, the repentance is important. The other reason is that we should remember how ugly that sin is, like how dangerous it is that we engage in that sin or that activity. And then third is we should remember the severity of Allah's punishment and the unbearable pain of his wrath or his punishment. So it's hard to talk about and it's hard to think about. But most of the time I think in the discourse these days with how many, how much difficulty everybody's going through, most of the time we tend to focus on hope and on love and on trying to be encouraging. At the same time though, there are moments of life where the Prophet ﷺ encouraged us to balance fear and hope. So there are moments of life where we should really have that like fear and reflect. And Ramadan is one of those moments where when we're just sitting in these nights, in these last 10 days, last 10 nights, we should really deeply think, okay, you know what? What have I done that could really mess me up in the next life? That could result in some serious punishments in the grave? And we ask Allah for protection for all of us that could result in some serious punishment in the hereafter, in the hell, God forbid, in the hellfire. What are these things that we might have done? And then we seek repentance for these things. And we remember, if somebody just for a moment, just one moment, we realize the reality of what Allah is talking about in the Qur'an and the reality of what the Prophet ﷺ is referring to in the hadith about how serious Allah's punishment is and how serious it could be in the next life, we will just want to leave everything bad that we're doing. Because it'll hit us like dang, I'm trading off a couple years of satisfaction for thousands and thousands and thousands of years of difficulty and torment. I don't know about you guys, but like, if I'm going through physical difficulty, it can be, you know, it's tough. I struggle with physical difficulty, even in Ramadan, if somebody's thirsty, if somebody's going through pains, any of this type of stuff or sickness or illness. Now imagine the level of difficulty that we could go through. We ask Allah for protection, but in the next life, because we didn't change our ways in this life, that Allah describes very serious scenes in the Qur'an about like how He's going to pour, the only thing people in hell will have to drink is boiling hot water and how it'll melt there. It'll literally like make, create like oozing holes and melt different parts of their organs and their bodies, and then they'll have to keep doing it and repeat it over and over and over again while it's like it's thousands and thousands and thousands of degrees of hot in the hellfire. So it's very serious. It's not a joke, not to be taken lightly, and it's important for us to reflect on this from time to time. And I'm not saying we overdo it and we become depressed people who just wander around like, you know, completely destroyed and depressed and hopeless, no, but we should reflect, especially in these days in the last 10 nights of Ramadan, which are the days of freedom from the hellfire, on what do I need to seek repentance from. This is very, very important for me to change my life. Like guys, it's, it's, this is the time. There is no other time. This is the moment. If you are on that journey and you are kind of debating, should I do this? Should I not? Should I change my life? Or should I not? These are the moments to change our life. This is the time to change our life in this blessed month of Ramadan in these last 10 days that we are in. So it's the time to turn to Allah and to ask Him for repentance and ask Him to forgive us, inshallah. So let's move on now into the conditions of repentance. Someone says, please answer my question. I actually did not understand the question. If you could just repost it on that would be great. All right. So the conditions of repentance, the conditions are first that you and I feel bad about what we've done. We have to feel bad. We have to feel remorse. So we mess up and we got to feel like I shouldn't have done that. Right. Or it could have been for 10, 15 years, we're doing something we have to feel bad about. We did that's at the essence of it, that we have a remorse in ourselves. Number two is we have a resolve that I'm not going to do this thing again. I'm not going to do it. You make a commitment to yourself and to Allah. I'm going to change that already. Now you are on a very, very specific and hopefully accepted path, inshallah, of repentance. And then you and I have to sincerely and deeply and honestly turn to Allah and beg him for forgiveness. And I'm talking about beg him for forgiveness. Like the scholars they described in my maqazali in his book where he talks about repentance. He talks about how literally you should, we should humble ourselves before Allah. We should turn to him, be in a moment of privacy between you and him and let the tears flow and just you and you are asking him, Ya Allah, forgive me. Ya Allah, help me. Ya Allah, change my life. Ya Allah, I'm sorry. Ya Allah, I made a mistake. Ya Allah, I didn't mean to do that. Ya Allah, I'm a weak human being, but I want to change. I want to change my life. I want to work on myself. These are the sincere moments that will define, inshallah, that will be the weighty moments on the day of judgment, the moments of time when you really turn to Allah. Because remember Allah loves the people who turn to him. He says in the Qur'an, Allah yuhibba towabin, that Allah loves the people who are regularly turning to him, the towabin, people who are turning to him in repentance. That's toba. Toba is repentance. So the people who are the people of repentance, Allah loves that category of people. And you would ask, how could Allah love a category of people that would have, you would have to do something to repent. But Allah created us with the propensity to make mistakes and he loves it when you and I ask him to forgive us for those mistakes. So in these moments and in these days of Ramadan, let's turn to him. Let's make a sincere intention to really, really deeply change our life. And inshallah, if we do that, our lives will change. No doubt, inshallah, our lives will change if the mercy of Allah comes. So those are the three steps. Again, reviewing them, it's to feel remorse. It's to make a commitment. I'm not going to do this again. And it's to beg Allah to forgive us. And the reality, when the reality of the sin sets in, that, oh my God, I did this and Allah told me not to. And then the reality, how do we kind of visualize reality? Here are a couple of things to keep in mind. First is, remember, Allah is the one who feeds us. He's the one who does everything for us. So when you and I sin, we're kind of like using Allah's blessings and it's against him, right? So there's a really interesting story here. It's reported that a man once went to one of the great saints of this religion, Ibrahim Ibn Adham, an early ascetics. And he said, he told him, he said, I continually wrong my own self and I turn away from everything that invites me to improve my way of life. So like I'm always messing up. And even when I have a chance to improve, I don't do it. So Ibrahim Ibn Adham replied to him and he said, if you can fulfill five conditions, then sinning will never harm you and you can fulfill your desires as much as you want. So like you do these five things and you can do whatever you want, you can follow all your desires. So the man was like, okay, yeah, tell me, tell me those conditions. So he said, okay, as for the first, if you want to disobey Allah, then don't eat from his sustenance. So if you want to disobey Allah, don't eat from what he, the one from his sustenance. So the man was like, wait, what am I going to eat? Everything on this earth is from Allah's sustenance. So Ibrahim said, listen, are you being sensible then? When you eat from his sustenance, he gave you and then you're disobedient to him? How? And the man is like, no, you're right. Okay, what's the second condition? He said, if you want to disobey Allah, then don't live in any of his lands. Don't live in his lands. Don't live in Allah's land and Allah's earth. The man said, this is even worse than the first. The whole earth, all the east and the west, it all belongs to Allah. Where am I going to live? And Ibrahim said, listen, if you really insist on disobeying him while you eat from his sustenance and live on his lands, then the third is at least look for a spot where Allah can't see you and disobey him there. So find a spot where God can't see you and disobey him there. And the man said, how can I do that? When Allah can see everything. And when he knows the deepest secrets that are in the breasts of man, that are in the hearts of man, Allah knows everything. And so he said, okay, what's the fourth condition? He desperately uses desperate states trying to ask. He said, okay, then when the angel of death comes to take your soul, ask him and tell him, give me some time so I can repent sincerely and I can do good deeds. So the fourth condition you told him, when the angel of death comes to take your soul, give me some time so that I can repent and I can do good deeds. And this man replied to Ibrahim Ibn Adham, Rahimullah, he said, when the time comes, the angel of death is not going to accept that from me. He's not going to do it. He said, okay. He said, listen, if you can't even put off death in order to repent, how are you going to be saved? So then the man, you know, thinks and he says, okay, what's the fifth condition? He said, when the guardians of the hellfire of Jahannam come to take you away from the day of judgment, don't go with them. Just say I'm not going. And the man exclaimed, they won't let me do that. Like, they're not going to let me do that. So Ibrahim Ibn Adham said, how do you expect to be saved then? So he told him, right? This man said, okay, okay, okay, that's enough for me. I am going to repent to Allah. I ask Allah. He says, talk for Allah. I'm really going to change my life and I'm going to work on improving my relationship with Allah. I mean, it's such a powerful story, right? That if you want to disobey Allah, don't eat from his food. Don't live in his land. Don't sin then where he's watching you. And when the angel of death comes, tell the angel, I need a little more time to come back in a couple of months. I'm going to repent first. And fifth is when you're being dragged, God forbid, into the hellfire. Just tell them, I don't want to go. And then if you do that, if all those are successful, then we can do whatever we want. We can sin and we can follow our desires. But obviously, the trick is here is that none of these things are up for discussion or up for debate. All of these are in Allah's hands. So this is really the reason why we need to repent. Like, let's get on a journey in the last 10 days of Ramadan to sincerely, sincerely turn to him, to repent to him, to beg him for forgiveness. And somebody asked, what are the five things I can do for these last 10 days of Ramadan? I'm going to talk about specific things you and I can do for repentance and I'll get into this question later. So with repentance, one of a couple of things we can do. First is that we should do it the sincere pen to the describer, we feel remorse, we make a commitment to stop the sin that we're doing, and we make a commitment to stop and we beg Allah for forgiveness. Then we should engage in a couple of acts where we actually, you know, through our worship are also asking for repentance. So we should perform two rakat salat tovah where it's a two rakat with an intention for Allah to forgive us. And we should try to do this on a weekly basis. Then on a weekly basis, make an intention to perform two rakat for the sake of Allah, but not feel salat for asking for forgiveness for everything that you've done for that week. Another thing that we can do is we should say astaghfirullah 70 times every day if we can or at least every week. And we should also try to say subhanallah will be 100 times for it comes in the hadith that the one who says subhanallah will be 100 times their sins will be forgiven even if they're as vast as the foam on the seat. And there's a lot of foam on the seat. So it is a lot of sins that can be forgiven. So that's this is the second thing that we should do. And again, I was paraphrasing the hadith, but the hadith generally indicates that the third thing that we should do is we should have a regular amount of fasting and after we sin like the day after we do a sin, we should fast as a means of turning to Allah and repenting to him or asking him for repentance. So here I'm not talking about Ramadan. I'm talking about outside of the month Ramadan. Obviously in Ramadan, you're fasting, right? And then the next thing we should do is we should make a wudu and we should try and go and spend some time in the masjid, pray in the masjid because for every step that you walk to the masjid, you are increasing in degrees and sins are being forgiven, inshallah. So these are some of the ways practically and we should do this in the last night as well where we should be asking for repentance via our prayer. We should be doing extra dhikr. We should of course, while we're fasting, be asking for repentance. And after Ramadan, we should fast more in order to ask Allah for repentance, and go and spend some time in the masjid. And of course, on top of this are things like performing Umrah and performing Hajj and these types of things. So hopefully that covers most of it. And I'm just going to end with a story. Somebody asked here before I get to this, do we repent for things we did before we became Muslim? It's a good question. Somebody also asked that earlier. When you become a Muslim, you hit the reset button. So all of that, inshallah, from the past is nothing you should worry about. But it is also good to just ask Allah, Allah forgive me for any mistake I've ever made and just transform everything I've done into something good into a good deed. But generally speaking, from my understanding, Allah knows best. Is that that point of becoming a Muslim? That past is erased, right? And we have Sahaba who did a lot of very serious things before they became Muslim, before they became Sahaba. But that then becoming Muslim and saying, that that is a means of erasing the past and what they've done. So we will open it up now for questions. And while the questions come in, inshallah, just going to share one more story here. There was a robber and a burglar. And he used to scale the house, he scaled the house one time of a very famous ascetic named Malik Ibn Dinar. And so one day he managed to get inside the house. And so when he got in the house, he was a little disappointed because there was really nothing in the house that was worth stealing. So the owner of the home was Malik Ibn Dinar. He was busy performing prayer at the time. So once he realized he wasn't alone, Malik Ibn Dinar really quickly ended his prayer and turned his face towards the thief. And without showing any sign of being shocked or anything, he calmly said, my brother, may Allah forgive you, you entered my home and found nothing that is worth taking. Yet I don't want you to leave my home without taking away some benefit. I don't want you to leave my home without taking away some benefit. So the man stood up and Malik Ibn Dinar stood up and he went to another part of the room and he came back with a jug full of water. And he looked into the eyes of this burglar and he said, make wudu and perform to rakat. And if you do so, then you will leave my house with a greater treasure than you initially came to even steal. And so this man was humbled by his words and he said, that's a generous offer. And this was a thief, imagine a thief, a burglar, like someone just came into your home and look at the way that Malik Ibn Dinar is treating him. So he made wudu and he did the two rakat and he said, you know, would you be okay if I stayed for a little longer because I want to stay and perform two units more, two more rakat. He said, stay for however long you want, however much prayer, a lot of decrees for you. So he ended up spending the whole night at his house praying. And then Malik Ibn Dinar said, okay, you should be good now. And instead of leaving, the man said the belief, he said, would you mind if I stayed with you today for I've made an intention to fast today. Again, look at that spend one night with a wali of Allah, with the righteous person and look at how much he's changed already. And the man says, the burglar ends up staying. And then he ends up staying for a number of days and he prays during the late hours of the night asking repentance and and also fasting throughout the duration of the days. So when he finally decided to leave, the burglar said, oh Malik, I have made a firm resolve to repent for my sins and for my former way of life that I'm going to change my life. And Malik said, indeed it is if that is in the hand of Allah and the man did change his life. And he began to lead of life of righteousness. He went from being a burglar would rob houses to in one instance after this man treated him kindly and guided him that he changed his life. And then he came across another burglar he knew and his burglar friend said to him, like, did you find the treasure you were looking for? He said, my brother, what I have found is Malik Ibn Dinar. And I went to steal from him. And it was he who ended up stealing my heart. For indeed, I have repented to Allah. I remain at his door. And I until I achieve what is what his obedient and loving slaves have achieved. And basically until I achieve this greater treasure, which is the treasure of heaven, the treasure of Allah's mercy and his pleasure. So that's what we should be focusing on. The sins that we do, we've made mistakes. Let's make a change. Let's make an intention to repent. And let's not get caught up in stuff after this month of Ramadan is done. Let's try to make a decision to change our life. Because really, it's not worth it. It's not worth all the all the stuff that we do, all the sins, the little pleasures, they're not worth the greater displeasure of Allah. They're not worth the greater punishment that can come. So inshallah, we'll go ahead and open it up for any questions that are coming in. And then we'll proceed to end with the dua. Somebody said, is it far as for a woman to go pray in the masjid? No, it's not a woman. Generally, it's it's it's not far as for men to pray in the masjid either. It's a emphasize for men to pray in the masjid for women. It's better to generally prefer to you know, to pray at home, but you can't go to the masjid. Someone says, what to do if a woman is on a menstrual cycle during the last 10 days? Excellent question. So the only things you really can't do are you can't pray. And of course, and well, you wouldn't be able to pray in fast, but you can still engage in thinker. You can listen to the Quran. You generate in some of the schools, you should not hold or in most of the schools, you shouldn't hold the Quran and recite the Quran. But you can listen to the Quran. You can seek knowledge. You can still spend all your time making dua. You can again do various different adhkar and various different types of liquor. You can read different beneficial books. I would recommend reading the Quran in English or whatever language you speak. I would recommend listening to different talks about the Quran. I would recommend reading tafsir or interpretations of the Quran. So there's a lot of good that you can do. The highest priority would be spend some time really making dua and spend some time learning, spend some time doing vikr and spend some time making dua. If you fill your days and nights up, you can even even if you're on your cycle in the odd nights, look a lot knows you're on your cycle. So you don't have to be praying tarawih and whatnot to get the benefit. But you be engaged in some type of worship and worship can be done in many, many, many ways. So hopefully that helps. Okay, somebody asked about the women praying in the masjid. I think women answered that generally, you know, for to pray at home, but you can pray in the masjid if you want, but it's definitely not far. Okay, any other questions? Inshallah, any other questions? We'll go ahead and wait for those questions. Otherwise, we will proceed to let's see anything else. Somebody had asked books websites to learn to get to learn more about Islam. I would check out seekers, seekers guidance, seekers guidance.org. I would check that out. They have a ton of courses and web and various other things, literature and whatnot that they recommend. And a good book I recommend is I would start with with the English translation of the Quran by NAS Abdul Halim. It's a very good translation. And then from there, I would also add in a book like Purification of the Heart by Sheykh Hamza Yusuf. Any recommendations on how to have kids learn Islam in a fun way? That's a really good question. These scholars recommend when it comes to teaching kids about Islam, that when they do something, first, everything should be made sweet. So I was actually just speaking to somebody earlier who he would when he was young or when his kids were young. Mashallah, his kids are like, you know, a father now, they're half a squadron, leaving prayer in the masjid, studying knowledge, really, really amazing kids. Now, increase them and preserve them, protect them. And what they would do is when they were young, he would encourage them and say, whoever wakes me up for the Hajjad and whoever wants to go pray the Hajjad, Salat al-Hajjad, and especially of course, Salat al-Fajr, we're going to get, you get chocolate and donuts afterwards, right? So like, he would use little things like that to sweeten the morning time. So they fell in love with this early morning time. They associated early morning, where most of us associate early morning with like, Oh my God, I got to get up like who wants to pray or so early, right? Like that's what the nafs wants, the ego. But he actually was able to get his kids to associate that with sweetness. So first is to, with regards to kids to try and make things sweet, to try and make things enjoyable. Second is to try not to have too harsh of an approach with them, right? You can make things fun and light by encouraging, by not having harshness. And third is by encouraging games with certain traits. So for example, let's say you're driving and I would like, you know, have your kids look around and say, okay, we're going to play the gratitude game. What's the gratitude game? The gratitude game is you look around and you think about everything that, that Allah has blessed us with just on this drive and you express shukr. You say, Alhamdulillah. So everybody goes around and they see different things and you count who can know the most amount of things to be grateful for. And you'll have some kids who they'll be grateful for all the obvious stuff. And then some who'll be grateful for, I'm grateful for the fact that this road is paved. I'm grateful for the fact that like there's people driving safely, right? All of these different things because you'll start to encourage these traits in them. So try to make things fun by playing games with specific concepts. Can you keep two fasts, one of your own fast and fast for someone else who cannot fast? No, no, if your fastest for you, if somebody cannot fast, they would need to make up the fast or if they literally cannot fast because of sickness or illness or old age, then what they do is they pay something called the fidia. They pay an expiation and that is that they feed somebody for every day that they missed fasting. And so that would be like roughly, you know, $300, $400 of food to somebody like $5, $10 per meal and that they pay someone for the 30 days that they missed. But you and I cannot make up that fast for them. No. Okay. Any other questions? Let's see. Any other questions come in? We will go ahead for a couple more minutes and then we'll end. Let's see. What about memorization of the Quran? Are you referring to a memorization while someone's on the menstrual cycle? Is that the question? I don't know the answer to that. I'm sorry. I would need to check on that and get back to you if you want to direct message me or anything. We can look into that one. I'm sorry. All right. Any other questions? Somebody had asked earlier, what is the balance between hope and fear? How do we balance it? You balance it by first making an intention to balance it. So you have some days where you really remind yourself of all of the things to be hopeful for and to appreciate and to inculcate that love of Allah. And then on certain days where you try to say, okay, I'm going to really focus a bit on thinking about death and thinking about the punishment and thinking about hellfire and these types of things reflect upon different things because the Muslim, we are people who are supposed to reflect and we reflect upon all the signs of Allah so we should oscillate between hope and fear. Oh, someone said best ways to memorize the Qur'an. So if someone's trying to memorize the Qur'an, if you're trying to memorize like certain surahs, one thing you could do is you could download, for example, there's an app I found beneficial on, I believe it's on iPhone and probably Android as well, it's just called Memorize. And it allows you like while you're literally walking to just go through verses and you could listen to them and you can read them and then you can repeat them over and over again and you can start to memorize them while hearing them as well. So that's helpful. If you're trying to like memorize the Qur'an fully, then you need to sit with a teacher ideally, Ahafiz, who will work through the Qur'an with you. And that would be good. You can do that sometimes at your local masjid. There's online HIF programs you can search so you can find a teacher who will basically go from surah Fatiha all the way until the end of the Qur'an and they will help you memorize and they will give you certain lessons and lesson plans and whatnot to help you facilitate that journey for you. The Memorizing the Qur'an is amazing. Highly recommend that we get on a path where at least we are trying to memorize a little bit of the Qur'an every year. Ideally every day or every month we're trying to memorize a little bit more. It's doable. And then implementing, we memorize, we understand, and we implement. That is amongst the most important. Okay, so we'll go ahead and end with a prayer with a dua. I don't think there's any other questions. Okay, cool. And with a prayer, if anybody has questions, just please post them. Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim. Alhamdulillahi rabbil al-alameen. Allahumma salli ala sayyidina Muhammadin ma'ali wa sahbihi sallam. Allahumma salli ala abutu al-arabin wa biqnati wa biqasali heen. Ya arham ar-Rahimin. Ya Allah, we ask that you pardon all of our sins to give us the Taufiq and the Divine Grace, to get on the path of repentance and get on the path of change, get on the path of mercy, and that you give us the ability to really transform our lives. And we ask that you pardon all the sins that we've done that you have displeased with, all the things that we've done and displeased with, all the sins that we've done that when you, when we know about them and we didn't know about them, Ya Rabb al-alameen. And we ask that you forgive us and give us an encompassing forgiveness and encompassing pardon. Allahumma innaka afoon kareem. Tohibbal afooafooafoo anna ya kareem, ya kareem, ya kareem. Ya Allah, and we ask that you make these days full of ease and barakah and facilitate worship for us and make it full of khayr and barakah and do the same for these nights, Ya Rabb al-alameen. As-salallahu alayhi wa sallam wa barakah, ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa alihi wa sahbihi wa sallim, alhamdulillah, Ya Rabb al-alameen. Alhamdulillah, alhamdulillah. So, insha'Allah, if there's no other questions, we'll go and end Jizakum al-akhayr. Again, we're in the last 10 nights. Really, let's, let's, let's, let's kind of tighten, tighten up the loincloth as they say and focus going for the, go, really go for it. Try to avoid TV, avoid Netflix, avoid overdoing it at any form of social media. Avoid wasting time in the nights, especially from the time Maghrib hits until the time Fajr comes. If we're not sleeping, try to be doing something good, whether listening to something good, saying, doing some dhikr, focused on something, making intention to eat so you can have energy for worship. Really, these are the nights of seeking Allah's mercy, Allah's doors of vastness and mercy and khayr are open for us. So, let's seek that mercy, insha'Allah, and keep everybody in your prayers, keep the umma in your prayers. And I pray that everybody has a very, very blessed last 10 nights. Insha'Allah, we will do the final class in this series of repentance next Sunday, right around 6 p.m. Pacific standard time, and we'll go ahead and wrap it up there. Insha'Allah.